Anna Brzyski

Assistant Professor
Director of Tuska Center for Contemporary Art

Office: 303A Fine Arts Bldg.

Telephone: 859.257.2291

Email: anna.brzyski@uky.edu

Personal website: https://www.uky.edu/~abrzy2

Education: University of Chicago, Ph.D.

Dr. Anna Brzyski joined the faculty of the Art Department at the University of Kentucky in 2003. She teaches courses in the 18th and 19th century European art, as well as theory, methodology, and criticism.

Dr. Brzyski's research interests focus on issues surrounding negotiation of value and legitimacy, and production of knowledge in art and art history. Her dissertation (“Modern Art and Nationalism in Fin de Siècle Poland”) and the majority of her publications have dealt so far with Central/Eastern Europe and in particular Poland. Her work has appeared in Art Criticism, Centropa, 19th Century Art Worldwide, an anthology Art and National Identity at the Turn of the Century, edited by Michelle Facos and Sharon Hirsh (Cambridge 2003), and an anthology Local Strategies-International Ambitions. Modern Art and Central Europe, 1918-1968, edited by Vojtech Lehoda (Czech Academy of Sciences, forthcoming in 2006).

In 2001, Dr. Brzyski co-edited with Peter Chametzky a special issue of Centropa (September 2001) “Modernism and Nationalism, Postmodernism and Postnationalism?” She is currently working on two book projects, an anthology Partisan Canons (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and Art in the Age of Art History. She is also the project director and compiler of the Polish Art Archive, a digital database of primary source materials pertaining to Polish art, a project funded by Southern Illinois University and the US Department of Educations. She is also the executive committee member of HGCEA (Historians of German & Central European Art & Architecture) and editor of Eurotexture, the HGCEA newsletter, as well as manager of the HGCEA and Centropa websites

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